LAWYERS: George Zimmerman Has Gone Rogue, And We're No Longer Representing Him

Attorneys for George Zimmerman have announced they are
withdrawing as his counsel, after losing contact with
the Trayvon Martin shooter.

The lawyers, Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, say they last spoke to
Zimmerman on Sunday, via text message, but that he has not
returned phone calls, emails, or text messages since then.

The two attorneys also conceded that they have never met
Zimmerman "face to face," and that their communication has
largely been limited to "texts," an admission that raises
questions about whether or not these lawyers even represented
Zimmerman in the first place.

CNN reports that the lawyers
never signed a written agreement to represent
Zimmerman.

Although the two attorneys have had limited contact with
Zimmerman, they emphasized that their former client has not fled,
saying that they have a "pretty good idea" about where he is.
They gave no clues as to Zimmerman's whereabouts, but said he is
no longer in the state.

"If you are looking in Florida, look much further," Uhrig said.

In addition to ending contact with his lawyers, Sonner and Uhrig
also indicated that Zimmerman has become increasingly unhinged,
and recently started to reach out to the media and the special
prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case on his own.

"George called Sean Hannity of Fox News off the record and he was unwilling to
tell us what was said," Sonner told reporters.

The attorneys were clearly agitated by Zimmerman's media strategy
(namely, the fact that he's been talking publicly at all). But
they left the door open to future representation if Zimmerman
explains his behavior and requests their services.

Time magazine has a statement from Benjamin Crump, the attorney
for the Trayvon Martin family:

"Trayvon’s family was always concerned that Zimmerman doesn’t
try to skirt his legal responsibilities and become a flight risk.
We always wanted this before a judge and a jury. We hope that
[authorities] will take this under consideration that this a
flight risk. If they go to press charges, is he really going to
face them?"